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Former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is again suspended from practicing law in Washington, D.C. while a disciplinary case over his falsehoods about voter fraud in the 2020 election proceeds against him.
As the dust settles on a hugely impactful term from the U.S. Supreme Court, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pursuing an effort to remove conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas from the bench.
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is stepping into a local redistricting lawsuit to defend the New York Voting Rights Act (NYVRA), a state law that protects minority voters and prohibits vote dilution at the local level.
A New York judge postponed the July sentencing for former President Donald Trump’s conviction on business fraud charges in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity.
Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is barred from practicing law in New York for repeatedly lying about widespread voter fraud in his efforts to help Donald Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election — the most severe professional punishment to date for the man once known as “America’s mayor.”
A little over a month before the state’s rapidly approaching June 25 primary, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R) and other Republicans are asking New York’s highest court to overturn the state’s universal early mail-in voting law, which permits all voters to vote by mail during the early voting period.
A New York court has once again rejected a Republican challenge to the state’s universal early mail-in voting law, which permits all voters to vote by mail during the early voting period.
A New York law that aims to simplify the absentee ballot counting process will largely stand after a Republican challenge to the law was mostly dismissed earlier today.
Next week, a New York appellate court will hear a Republican challenge to the state’s new no-excuse mail-in voting law, the New York Early Mail Voter Act.
Today, a New York court dismissed a challenge to the New York State Board of Elections’ approval of a touch screen voting machine, the ExpressVote XL.